Hello everyone,
Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family. It has been a delight to welcome all the staff and children back to school. As we begin a new year, we are excited to see your children continue to be happy, settled and make good progress here at Netherlee Primary. Here’s to another year of fun and fantastic learning!
Upcoming Events
Please have a look at the parent calendar, available on our Netherlee Website, to see all the dates and times of the various events coming up. This link will take you straight there https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/sandnc/calendar.
Diversity Month
Building on the success of last year’s Diversity events, all children in our school and nursery will be participating in Diversity Month during the month of February. We were incredibly lucky last year that lots of our parents and carers came in to share their cultural background with cooking, music, languages, dance and so much more and we would love to welcome even more of you again this year.
We have been looking at all themes of diversity during our Pupil Parliament time: race, gender, socio-economic, neuro, ethnicity and religion and wish to develop our Diversity Month even further to include more of these throughout the month.
If you feel this is something you would be able to help with, please contact Mrs Linn through school mail: SchoolMail@netherlee.e-renfrew.sch.uk . You are welcome to speak to individual classes or whole stages about your experiences and/or lead active sessions, with the support of school staff and we can work around a time that suits you best.
Celebrating Wider Achievements at Netherlee
We would like to continue to invite you to share information about a recent wider achievement that your child has done by completing the Wider Achievements form below. We are always looking for ways to recognise and celebrate our children’s wider achievements out with Netherlee. As detailed in our Promoting Positive Behaviour Policy, during stage assemblies each month, certificates are awarded to pupils who have really tried to uphold the Netherlee Values, for Effort and Progress and for Achievements within and out with school. For example, many of our children take part in extracurricular clubs and competitions, charity work or simply have learnt a new life skill. We will check this form regularly so that we can celebrate as many children’s achievements as possible.
Wider Achievement Form
Community Events – Active Schools – Karate
Over the years, in partnership with East Renfrewshire Active Schools, Japan Karate have developed and grown a Karate club based at Eastwood High School. Your child has the opportunity to attend a 3 week Introduction to Karate block at the club at Eastwood High School. Full details of the club are in the attached letter.
East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure
Participating in sport can have many positive impacts on children’s lives including developing life skills such as respect, responsibility, confidence, compassion and friendship- all in an active environment. East Renfrewshire Culture & Leisure run over 100 sports classes for children each week from Indoor Athletics Classes, Badminton, Football, Tennis and so much more! You can search and learn about all their sports classes here: https://www.ercultureandleisure.org/sports-arts/sports/kids-sport-classes/
Primary 1: Health and Weight Screening Programme
Please check your child’s bag for an NHS Letter regarding the P1 Health and Weight screening programme. These letters must be returned to the school office by Friday 26th January.
Primary 4c Staffing Update
We are delighted to share the news that Mrs Suzanne McGeachy will be returning from her maternity leave on Wednesday 17th January. Mrs McGeachy will work every Thursday, Friday and alternate Wednesdays. Your child will continue to be taught by Miss MacInnes on alternate Wednesdays, Mondays and Tuesdays. We are very much looking forward to welcoming Mrs McGeachy back into school and know she is excited about her return and working with your children.
Primary 5: Diversity Topic
As part of their Diversity topic Primary 5 will be exploring African style musical instruments. They will have the opportunity to make one and it would be really helpful if the children could bring in any of the following items to help with this:
- Kitchen roll tubes
- Jam jar/coffee jar (or similar) lids
- Small tubs such as margarine or large yogurt pots
- Small plastic drinks bottles (less than 500ml if possible)
- Bottle tops (metal if possible)
- Any tiny buttons or unwanted hama beads (or items of similar size)
We are sure the children will be desperate to show you which instrument they chose to create. We will be working on this over several weeks so any contributions would be gratefully received from Monday 15th January until Thursday 8 February. All contributions will go into a communal pile for the children to choose from. Thank you
Primary 5-7: Dance After School Club
An after school P5-P7 Dance Club will be starting on Tuesday from 3.45-4.45pm at Williamwood High School. The club will run for 3 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P5-7 Badminton Club
Day and Time: Tuesday 3.45 – 4.45pm.
Dates: 23rd & 30th January and 6th February
Venue: Williamwood High School
Delivered By: Miss A Glen
Cost: FREE
If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: P5-7 Dance Club Registration no later than Tuesday 16th January. In the event of over subscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.
Primary 5-7: Girls Football After School Club
An after school P5-P7 Girls Football Club will be starting on Friday from 3.45-4.45pm at Williamwood High School. The club will run for 3 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P5-7 Girls Football Club
Day and Time: Friday 3.45 – 4.45pm
Dates: 26th January, 2nd and 16th February
Venue: Williamwood High School
Delivered By: Miss A McLaughlin
Cost: FREE
If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: Girls Football Club Registration no later than Tuesday 16th January. In the event of over subscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.
Primary 7: Cooking
As part of our Hub programme this term, P7 will be cooking and eating vegetable tacos. They will cook in groups, with different groups each week over the next few weeks, beginning Tuesday 16th January. All ingredients below are optional as children will choose which ingredients they wish to use. Gluten free tortillas will be provided for those who require them.
Vegetable tacos:
Peppers
Onions
Mushrooms
Kidney beans
Low-fat shredded cheese
Whole-wheat tortilla wraps (1/4 per child)
Vegetable oil
Asda salsa
Mild chilli powder
Paprika
Cumin
Salt
Pepper
Please let the school know if there are any issues with this or you would not like your child to have any of the ingredients, outwith the dietary information we have on file.
Primary 7: Badminton After School Club
An after school P7 Badminton Club will be starting on Tuesday from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for 4 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P7 Badminton Club
Day and Time: Tuesday 3.15 – 4.15pm
Dates: 30th January, 6th, 20th and 27th February
Venue: Gym Hall
Delivered By: Mrs Miller
Cost: FREE
If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: Badminton Club Registration no later than Tuesday 16th January. In the event of over subscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.
Primary 7: Basketball After School Club
An after school P7 Basketball Club will be starting on Wednesday from 3.15-4.15pm. The club will run for 5 weeks. Full details are as follows:
Activity: P7 Basketball Club
Day and Time: Wednesday 3.15 – 4.15pm.
Dates: 31st January, 7th & 21st February, 6th March and 17th April
Venue: Gym Hall
Delivered By: Mrs Linn and Miss Stevens
Cost: FREE
If you think your child would be interested in attending, please complete the form here: Basketball Club Registration no later than Tuesday 16th January. In the event of over subscription names will be balloted. All successful applicants will be notified and asked to complete a consent form via ParentsPortal.
Have a nice weekend and please remember to get in touch with myself or any member of staff at any time if you have any comments, questions or concerns. We are always here to listen and to help in any way we can.
